Ahmedabad SME Conference

Name: Ahmedabad SME Conference
Start: 2026-03-13T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2026-03-13T20:30:00+05:30
Location: iHub Gujarat, Prajna Puram, KCG Campus, opp. PRL, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380015.

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Friday, 13 March, 6 pm - 8:30 pm

iHub Gujarat, Prajna Puram, KCG Campus, opp. PRL, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380015.

Ahmedabad

About

Co-hosted by eChai Ventures, Wadhwani Foundation and iHub. Ahmedabad SME Conference brings together founders and business owners who are building solid companies and now thinking about the next phase of growth. It is for those working on strengthening their brand, improving systems and governance, exploring the SME IPO route, or taking their products and services to global markets through exports and partnerships. The focus stays practical and founder-first. What does it really take to move from a strong regional business to a respected brand. How do you prepare your numbers, team, and structure for public markets. What changes when you start selling beyond India. What mistakes are worth avoiding. These are conversations led by people who are in the middle of building, not just advising from the outside. As with eChai gatherings, the format encourages honest sharing, peer learning, and meaningful connections. The intent is simple: help SMEs think bigger, operate stronger, and move toward becoming institution-ready businesses with global ambition.

Hosts & speakers

Ecosystem lead · Wadhwani Foundation

Speaker

Amit Gupta

Founder · Airmed Pathology Labs

Speaker

Jignesh Patel

Founder · LumosLogic India LLP

Speaker

Sanjay Chakraborty

Founder, ESSKSEE Consultancy · Ahmedabad

Speaker

Sanjay Desai

Managing Director, RBD Engineers Pvt. Ltd · Ahmedabad

Speaker

Shailesh Patel

Managing Director, Topline Switchgear Pvt Ltd · Ahmedabad

Speaker

Sriram Chidambaram

Founder, SRF Capital Studio · Ahmedabad

Speaker

Udayakumar Karthik

Director, Asian Spices · Ahmedabad

Speaker

Urvish Shah

Founder, BU4 Auto · Ahmedabad

Speaker

Veena Parikh

Founder, Shashwat Systems Private Limited · Ahmedabad

Founder & CEO · Qarmatek

Who was there

Founder & CEO · Shaadi Vibe

Aashish Kharwade

Sr. Technical Support Executive · FastHire

Aayush Rajaji

Founder · Wescaleo Technologies

Akshay Solanki

Founder & Software Engineer · That Was AI

Ankita Nagesh

Software Engineer · Indore

Aparna Sahoo

Co - Founder · The Moon care

Arjav Shah

Founder · Impixal Media

Dharmik Chhatbar

Founder · AIGyde

Harsh Jani

CTO · Naffo Technologies

Harshil Mantri

Equity Research Analyst · Ahmedabad

Hetul Patel

Business Manager · Dirghah Capital Pvt. Ltd.

Jainam Shah

Founder · Ashutosh Global Tradelink LLP

Janak Thakkar

CEO & Founder · DevOps TechLab

Jignesh Thakkar

Founder · LoudRevel

Kunjan Atara

Freelance Graphic Designer · Freelancer

Manish Nayee

Founder & CEO · Wority Technology

AI Educator and consultant

Omnish Adroja

Director · Villonex Pvt Ltd

Parth Parmar

Founder & CEO · Jalebi Venture

Raj Shah

Founder, HireBeast - Helping founders and recruiters streamline their hiring with AI to make faster, smarter, and confident hires. · VP - Product, Almashines

Rakesh Hansrajani

Founder · FastHire

Sanyam Chhajed

Programs Manager · GUSEC

Satyen Engineer

Founder · Yhonk Tech Pvt Ltd

Shubh Patel

Marketing Executive · Zarya Impex Pvt Ltd

Sumit Kasardekar

Founder · The Harsmit Ventures

Yogesh Trivedi

Founder · CognitivTrust Inc.

Harsh Amin

Ecogiry

Manan Maheshwari

Growth Strategist | AI Practioner | Business Consultant · Consultriva

Bhavik Parikh

Performance Marketer · Mvtechlabs

Divyesh Kathiriya

Sr IT professional with Global exposure · Accenture

Founder · Webexpert Infotech

Head of Business Development · MATPLAT Private Limited

Director · Vimesh Industries

Ashutosh Raval

Cyber Security Professional ( Offensive Security) · Redhacks1 IT security pvt ltd

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Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Each partnership comes with presence across eChai, introductions to the right founders, and a team that stays involved through the year. And each one is shaped around what the brand wants out of it.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. When one fits what you do and who you want to meet, you are on the list.

What we do with you

We sit down with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

How it works.

A partnership is for growth stage founders who want to come in as a partner brand, and it runs one year at a time. The brand fee for the year is paid to eChai. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.